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TAXI DRIVER
Columbia, 1976

PRINCIPAL CAST Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster
DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese
PRODUCER Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
SCREENWRITER Paul Schrader
De Niro is Travis Bickle, a New York City cab driver whose rage builds in a lonely, dark world, until his attempt to befriend and free Foster's 12-year-old prostitute from her pimp culminates in a violent shoot-out. "You talkin' to me?"

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Paramount, 1956

PRINCIPAL CAST Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
DIRECTOR Cecil B. De Mille
PRODUCER Cecil B. De Mille
SCREENWRITERS Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Heston portrays Moses, who receives the Ten Commandments and leads his people from Egypt to the promised land. The spectacular parting of the Red Sea remains a favorite.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
Tri-Star, 1991

PRINCIPAL CAST Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
DIRECTOR James Cameron
PRODUCER James Cameron
SCREENWRITERS James Cameron, William Wisher
Schwarzenegger is an automaton "cyborg" sent from the future to protect the would-be savior of mankind, who is still a boy. A more advanced cyborg, most often in the form of a police officer, has been sent to destroy them both. The film's special effects highlight this rollercoaster of an action film. "Hasta la vista, baby."

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Paramount, 1983

PRINCIPAL CAST Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
DIRECTOR James L. Brooks
PRODUCER James L. Brooks
SCREENWRITER James L. Brooks
MacLaine is Aurora Greenway, an overbearing mother to Winger's rebellious and free-spirited daughter. Over a period of thirty years, their relationship is tested by Aurora's smothering advice about marriage, children and other life choices. Ultimately, they find their closest bond when Winger contracts a terminal illness.

THELMA & LOUISE
MGM/UA, 1991

PRINCIPAL CAST Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon
DIRECTOR Ridley Scott
PRODUCER Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk
SCREENWRITER Callie Khouri
Sarandon and Davis are friends who leave their troubled pasts behind and take to the road for a weekend getaway. After one of them shoots a man who tried to rape the other, they disappear into the landscape of the American West and try to stay one step ahead of the law.

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
United Artists, 1924

PRINCIPAL CAST Douglas Fairbanks
DIRECTOR Raoul Walsh
PRODUCER Douglas Fairbanks
SCREENWRITERS Elton Thomas, Lotta Woods
Fairbanks' energetic performance and a brilliant two-strip Technicolor special effects process, including a magic carpet ride, made this Arabian Nights spectacle
a popular success.

THE THIN MAN
M-G-M, 1934

PRINCIPAL CAST William Powell, Myrna Loy
DIRECTOR W.S. Van Dyke
PRODUCER Hunt Stromberg
SCREENWRITERS Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
The first film to feature stylish detective Nick Charles, his wife Nora and their beloved wire-haired terrier "Asta," launched the popular Thin Man series and ushered in a new era of sophisticated comedies.

THE THIRD MAN
British Lion, 1949

PRINCIPAL CAST Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Aida Valli
DIRECTOR Carol Reed
PRODUCERS Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, David O. Selznick
SCREENWRITER Graham Greene
Zither music, a giant ferris wheel and a spectacular late-in-the film appearance
by Welles as the mysterious "Harry Lime" highlight this tale of intrigue in post-World War II Vienna.

THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO
M-G-M, 1944

PRINCIPAL CAST Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson
DIRECTOR Mervyn LeRoy
PRODUCER Sam Zimbalist
SCREENWRITER Dalton Trumbo
Tracy is General Jimmy Doolittle, the leader of the first World War II American bombing raid on Japan, but has only a small role in this action story about a crew headed by pilot Johnson, who crash lands on the China coast.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE
United Artists, 1942

PRINCIPAL CAST Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
DIRECTOR Ernst Lubitsch
PRODUCER Ernst Lubitsch
SCREENWRITERS Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer
Benny plays the role of a ham actor who is the head of a Polish acting troupe that hoodwinks the Nazis in this black comedy. This was Lombard's last film.

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
Warner Bros., 1944

PRINCIPAL CAST Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
DIRECTOR Howard Hawks
PRODUCER Howard Hawks
SCREENWRITERS Jules Furthman, William Faulkner
In their first film together, Bacall instructs Bogart on how to whistle in this Ernest Hemingway-based story of intrigue on the island of Martinique.
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Universal, 1962

PRINCIPAL CAST Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
DIRECTOR Robert Mulligan
PRODUCER Alan J. Pakula
SCREENWRITER Horton Foote
Peck's Atticus Finch is a widowed Southern lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. At home, he raises his daughter, Scout, and his son, Jem, and teaches them about compassion and the evils of prejudice. Foote's screenplay is based on Harper Lee's novel.

TOM JONES
United Artists, 1963

PRINCIPAL CAST Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Diane Cilento
DIRECTOR Tony Richardson
PRODUCER Tony Richardson
SCREENWRITER John Osborne
Finney is the title character in this bawdy Henry Fielding tale of the adventures of a young man seeking fortune and love in 18th-century England.

TOOTSIE
Columbia, 1982

PRINCIPAL CAST Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
DIRECTOR Sydney Pollack
PRODUCERS Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards
SCREENWRITERS Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Murray Schisgal
Hoffman stars in this comedy about a temperamental out-of-work actor who puts on a dress and lands the role of a lifetime in a TV soap opera. Love interest Lange and her lonely father make situations even more complicated in this gender-bending love story.

TOP HAT
RKO, 1935

PRINCIPAL CAST Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
DIRECTOR Mark Sandrich
PRODUCER Pandro S. Berman
SCREENWRITERS Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott
The team of Rogers and Astaire romantically dance their way through Irving Berlin songs such as "Cheek To Cheek" and "Isn't This a Lovely Day To Be Caught in the Rain?" Astaire's "Top Hat" number is one of the most famous ever filmed.

TOUCH OF EVIL
Universal, 1958

PRINCIPAL CAST Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
DIRECTOR Orson Welles
PRODUCER Albert Zugsmith
SCREENWRITER Orson Welles
Heston is a Mexican narcotics agent and Welles is the corrupt American police official who are at odds when a murder takes place in a border town. More than a "touch" of evil is uncovered in this tightly directed and brilliantly scripted film.

TOY STORY
Disney, 1995

DIRECTOR John Lasseter
PRODUCERS Ralph J. Guggenhein, Bonnie Arnold
SCREENWRITERS John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter, Joe Ranft, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Groundbreaking computer animation creates the world of Woody, a toy cowboy, who is replaced as the favorite toy by higher-tech, but doltish Buzz Lightyear. "To infinity and beyond!"

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
Warner Bros., 1948

PRINCIPAL CAST Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
DIRECTOR John Huston
PRODUCER Henry Blanke
SCREENWRITER John Huston
A scraggly Bogart leads a trio of gold prospectors destroyed by greed in this taut psychological drama. John Huston directed his father in a stellar performance.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Paramount, 1932

PRINCIPAL CAST Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
DIRECTOR Ernst Lubitsch
PRODUCER Ernst Lubitsch
SCREENWRITERS Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones
This sophisticated comedy exemplifies the famous "Lubitsch touch" as two jewel thieves' relationship is threatened when one is tempted by a beautiful, wealthy woman.

12 ANGRY MEN
United Artists, 1957

PRINCIPAL CAST Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
DIRECTOR Sidney Lumet
PRODUCER Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
SCREENWRITER Reginald Rose
Set entirely in a jury room, the film shows how a lone holdout, Fonda, methodically faces class and racial prejudices to convince the eleven other jurors to change their verdict from guilty to not guilty, thus enabling an innocent young man to go free.

TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949

PRINCIPAL CAST Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger
DIRECTOR Henry King
PRODUCER Darryl F. Zanuck
SCREENWRITERS Sy Bartlett, Beirne Lay, Jr.
This was one of a new breed of post-World War II films displaying a different perspective. Peck is the tough, stoic "Savage," commander of a U.S. air base in Britain, who must keep his pilots inspired by enforcing strict military discipline.

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
Disney, 1954

PRINCIPAL CAST Kirk Douglas, James Mason
DIRECTOR Richard Fleischer
PRODUCER Walt Disney
SCREENWRITER Earl Felton
Mason is the suave, yet malevolent Captain Nemo, whose futuristic submarine offers a comfortable prison for three 19th-century men shipwrecked while investigating an attack by a mysterious sea monster. Douglas' fight with a giant squid is still memorable.

TWO FOR THE ROAD
Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967

PRINCIPAL CAST Albert Finney, Audrey Hepburn
DIRECTOR Stanley Donen
PRODUCER Stanley Donen
SCREENWRITER Frederic Raphael
Finney and Hepburn are partners in a declining marriage of twelve years. Their relationship unfolds through a series of flashbacks to several road trips through the South of France.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
M-G-M, 1968

PRINCIPAL CAST Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
DIRECTOR Stanley Kubrick
PRODUCER Stanley Kubrick
SCREENWRITERS Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Kubrick's science fiction epic puts mankind in context between ape and space voyager. The film created a stir for its special effects, the computer HAL, and the debate about the meaning of the film's final sequence.


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